Canadians as to venture to send a corps of troops into a sister Colony; that therefore our preparations have been somewhat backward, but that I receive re-enforcements and necessary stores as fast as my boats can return to Ticonderoga. If any powder can be obtained, it would be serviceable; but it is a delicate point to touch on, lest it might give suspicions of our inability to carry our point here.

It would be proper to take the conference in writing, and make them sign their engagements.

R. M.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

SIR: We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 15th instant, and are deeply sensible of your benevolence towards the inhabitants of Portsmouth. We have consulted the Committee of that Town, and concluded to forward the whole cargo; to sell three hundred barrels thereof to the inhabitants of Portsmouth, and, out of the proceeds, to pay the sailors’ wages.

Before the receipt of yours, Mr. Moylan had settled the method of transportation.

In behalf of the Committee, I have the honour to be, with the highest esteem, your Excellency’s most obedient humble servant.

GENERAL SULLIVAN TO NEW-HAMPSHIRE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

Winter-Hill, October 18, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: Agreeable to your request, I enclose you a list of vacancies in the New-Hampshire Regiments, with the names of the persons recommended to fill them; beg you to fill up the commissions and forward them, as soon as possible, to, Gentlemen, your very humble servant,

JOHN SULLIVAN.

Honourable Committee of Safety, New-Hampshire.

P. S. As Colonel Stark and Colonel Reed have not mentioned when the vacancies happened, beg you to leave me to put in the dates, which I think you may venture to do, though I am fully convinced of the justice of your observation, viz: that you have no authority to delegate the power of making out commissions.

Your humble servant,

JOHN SULLIVAN.

Return of Vacancies in Colonel REED’S Regiment.

The vacant commissions in Colonel Reed ’s Regiment, with the names of those persons recommended to receive said commissions:

A Lieutenant wanting in Captain Spaulding’s Company; the person recommended to supply the said vacancy is George Aldrich, now Ensign in Captain Hinds’s Company, although the said Aldrich hath not received his Ensign’s commission. An Adjutant vacant; Stephen Peabody recommended to receive the Adjutancy, who hath ever done the duty. An Ensigncy vacant in Captain Hutchinson’s Company; the person recommended is Richard Coughton, Sergeant-Major, to fill up said vacancy; and William Hawkins, who distinguished himself in the battle at Bunker’s Hill, the 17th of June last, to supply the place of an Ensign in Captain Hinds ’s Company, in lieu of the abovenamed Aldrich.

So the matter is: Lieutenant, George Aldrich; Ensigns, Richard Coughton and William Hawkins; Adjutant, Stephen Peabody.

JAMES REED, Colonel.
ISRAEL GILMAN, Lt. Col.
NATHAN HALE, Major.

Camp, October 18, 1775.

Vacancies in Colonel POOR’S Regiment.

Return of those recommended for commissions in Colonel Poor’s Regiment:

Ensign Thomas Lyford to a Lieutenancy in Captain Tilton’s Company, vacated September 20th. Joseph Huntoon to be Ensign in; said Company, vacated August 27th.

Lieutenant Thomas Leavitt to succeed the late Captain Elkins, discharged August 20th. Ensign Nath’l Thwing to succeed Lieutenant Leavitt, and James Wedgewood to succeed Ensign Brown, of said Company, discharged September 20th.

William Rowell to be Ensign in Captain Clough’s Company, to succeed Ensign Lyford, vacated September 20th.

Richard Weare to be Ensign in Captain Rowe ’s Company, commission vacated September 3d.

Enoch Chase to be Ensign in Captain Titcomb’s Company, commission vacated September 1st.

Thomas Chandler to succeed Ensign Thwing, in Captain Shortridge’s Company, vacated August 20th.

ENOCH POOR.

A Return of Vacancies in Colonel STARK’S Regiment

In Captain Reed ’s Company Lieutenancy vacant; Ensign James Anderson recommended to said vacancy, and Robert Barnet for an Ensign in said Company.

Ensign vacant in Captain Kinsman’s Company; Samuel Bradford recommended to said vacancy.

Ensign vacant in Capt. Abbott’s Company; Abiel Chandler recommended to be commissioned as Ensign in said Company, from the first establishment of the Regiment.

JOHN STARK, Colonel.

Camp on Winter-Hill, October 18, 1775.

ADDRESS OF THE BOROUGH OF ABINGDON.

Address of the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses of the Borough of Abingdon, in the County of Berks, presented to His Majesty by John Mayor, Esq., High Sheriff of Berkshire, and Representative in Parliament for the said Borough, and John Morton, Esq., Recorder of the said Borough.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty:

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses of the Borough of Abingdon, in Common Council assembled, truly sensible of the many blessings we enjoy under your Majesty’s mild and auspicious Government, beg leave at this important juncture to present to your Majesty the strongest assurances of our faithful and zealous attachment to your royal person, to the supreme Legislature of Great Britain, and our excellent Constitution, in Church and State; and that we will, to the utmost of our abilities, assist in supporting them.

We cannot but lament the misery and abhor the conduct of many of our fellow-subjects in America, influenced and deluded by the artful designs of seditious and factious men, both at home and abroad, who, under the specious pretext of preserving the liberty of the people, are aiming at a total subversion of Government, and the confounding of all order and decency, and whose machinations have plunged those unhappy people into open rebellion against your Majesty’s crown and the laws of the realm.

We therefore most ardently wish such success may attend those measures which your Majesty, in your wisdom and the firmness of your Parliament, shall adopt at this crisis, as may speedily reduce your rebellious subjects to a just sense of their duty and allegiance; and that the indubitable authority of the British Legislature may be equally acknowledged and permanently established in every part of your Majesty’s Dominions.

Given under our common seal, this 19th day of October, 1775.

ADDRESS OF THE CITY OF ABERDEEN.

Address of the Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the City of Aberdeen, transmitted to the Earl of Suffolk, one of His Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State, and presented to His Majesty.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the City of ABERDEEN.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful subjects, the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Aberdeen, beg leave to approach the throne, and to assure your Majesty that we are most warmly and loyally attached to your person,